Arabic-L:LING:Nasrallah's 'r' pronunciation query

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Date: 24 Jul  2006
From:Haroon Shirwani <arabictutor at hotmail.com>
Subject:Nasrallah's 'r' pronunciation query

Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah generally does not pronounce the raa  
clearly. It almost becomes a waaw: "amwika, amwika, anta al-shaytan  
al-akbaw". Is this is a speech difficulty, or does it come from his  
dialect?

Many thanks.

Haroon

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